John 20:10

Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene

10 Then the disciples went away again to their [own homes].

John 20:10 Meaning and Commentary

John 20:10

Then the disciples
Peter and John, after they had seen and examined things, and satisfied themselves as much as they could:

went away again unto their own home;
or "to themselves", as in the original text, and so the Vulgate Latin reads it; not that the meaning is, that they had been out of their minds, and proper exercise of them, and now came to themselves; but they returned to their own company, to the rest of the disciples they left at home, who were as themselves. The Syriac renders it, (Nwhtkwdl) , "to their own place", and so the Arabic and Persic versions; the place from whence they came, and where the rest were assembled together, to pray, converse, and consult together, what was to be done at this juncture.

John 20:10 In-Context

8 So then the other disciple who had come to the tomb first also went in, and he saw and believed.
9 (For they did not yet know the scripture that it was necessary for him to rise from the dead.)
10 Then the disciples went away again to their [own homes].
11 But Mary stood outside at the tomb, weeping. Then, while she was weeping, she bent over to look into the tomb,
12 and she saw two angels in white, seated one at the head and one at the feet where the body of Jesus had been lying.

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. *The phrase "[own homes]" is not in the Greek text but is implied
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